Splice-joint for car-sills.



J. Y. SATTERWHITEP SPLICE JOINT FOR OAR SILLS.

APPLICATION FILED r2121, 191a.

Patented Apr, 28, 1914 WITNESSES ATTORNEY PATENT orr on JOHN YANCY SATTERW'HITE, OF WAGONER, OKLAHOMA.

SPLICE-JOINT FOR CAR-STILLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

Application filed February 21, 1913. Serial No. 750,018.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN Yanc SATTER- wnrrn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at \Vagoner, in the county of Wagoner and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Splice-Joints for Car-Sills, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in splice joints for car sills.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of joints for splicing the sills of wooden frame cars and analogous timbers, and to provide a simple, ethcientand comparatively inexpensive splice clamp of strong and durable construction, adapted to be easily and quickly applied to a joint, and capable of obviating the necessity of employing the ordinary scab board and the bolts thereof.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

ln the drawing :-F igure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a sill splice or joint, constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. 1 3 is a reverse plan view. Fig. 4- is a transverse sectional view on the line i-l of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the line of Fig, 1. Fig. (3 is a detail PLISPQCilX'Q view of the bottom plate.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of 'the invention. 1 and 2 designate splice ends of sills 3 and t designed for use in the construction of wooden frame cars, but the splice or joint may be advantageously employed for connecting the ends of various other timbers or frame members. The splice ends 1 and 2 are formed by recessing the sills and the recessed ends are overlapped, as clearly shown in Fi 1 of the drawing, and are secured toget er by clamps located at the ends of splice joints, and each comprising a substantially U-shaped yoke o, a bottom plate 6 and a U-bolt 7, Which secures the bottom plate to. the yoke and maintains the said parts in interlocked relation.

The yoke, which is constructed of malleable iron or other suitable metal, is composed of spaced parallel sides and a connecting top portion, and thesides are provided with depending corner lugs 8, which engage recesses 9 of the bottom plate (3. The bottom plate consists of a substantially oblong body portion and lateral extensions 10, project ing from opposite sides of the body portion centrally thereof and forming angles in the corners of which are arranged the recesses 9. The depending lugs 8 engage the recesses, \vhiclrenable the bottom plate to be drawn up tightly against the sills, and at the same time the interlocking connection formed by the lugs and the recesses prevents the spreading of the sides of the yoke.

The yoke is provided exteriorly of the top and sides with a central thickened or enlarged portion 11, and it has top and side grooves 12 and 13, formed in the enlarged portion 11 and receiving the top connecting portion and the sides of the U-shapcd bolt 7. The top groove, which is horizontal, extends entirely across the top of the yoke, and the side grooves are arranged vertically and extend from the terminals of the top groove to the lower edges of the sides of the yoke. The approximately U-shaped bolt 7 is composed of straight sides and a straight connecting'top portion, and the lower portions 14 of the sides are threaded for the reception of nuts 15, which engage the lower faces of the lateral extension 10 of the bottom plate. The top yoke is provided with terminal extensions 16 projecting beyond the side portions of the yokes and provided with centrally arranged perforations 16 receiving vertical end bolts 17, piercing the sills at the overlapped splice ends and also be yond the same, as clearly illustrated in Fig. l of the drawing. The vertical end bolts are located beyond the transverse plane of the sides of the yoke. The lower terminals of the vertical end bolts extend through the wrforations 18 in the ends of the body portion of the bottom plate and are provided with nuts 19, engaging the lower face of the said plate. .In order to prerent the vertical bolts 17 from turning when the nuts 19 thereof are. scrmved home, the yokes are provided at the top with projecting vertical lugs or flanges 21, extending from the upper faces of the top portions of the yokes and located at the inner sides of the perforations 16" and fittine against the adjacent edges of the heads ot the bolts 17. The lugs or flanges 21, which are formed integral with are preferably 01 21 width and corresponding to the sizeof the heads ts, and their upper edges are arin flush relation with the upper faces 0; the bolt heads.

The clamps are arranged in overlapping relation with the terminals of the splice ends, which are also preferably connected by a pair of vertical centrally arranged bolts 20, ercing the splice ends and arranged in s (i. relation with the center 01" the oint and in line with the median vertical plane of the sills. Any number of bolts 20 may, of course, be employed, but in the joints of the sills wooden frame cars, two bolts are preferably employed.

"What is claimed is:- v

A clamp 01: the class described includa yoke composed of spaced sides and a comieoting top por'ion and having depending eorner lugs arranged in pairs at the lower ends of the said sides, said yoke being so provided with connected grooves ex- 3 tending across the top and down the sides" te yoke, e bottom plate llELVlHP lateral extensions provided at opposite sides with l hostess recesses receiving the said lugs, which interlock the yoke and the plate, and a il -bolt straddling the yoke and fitted in the said grooves and piercing the lateral extensions of the bottom late and provided with means for engaging the same.

2. The combination with two members having reduced overlapped portions to form a splice joint, of clamps arranged at the ends of the oint and each including a substantially U-sheped yoke straddling the.

members at one of the terminals thereof and provided at its sides with spaced depending projecting lags said yoke being also provided at the top with longitudinal extensions projecting inwardly and outwardly at the adjacent end of the joint, a bottom plate connecting the lower ends of the sides of atent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Wommisstoner of Patents,

Washington, 3 3. GP 

